Realism and the novel form --
The reading public and the rise of the novel --
Robinson Crusoe, individualism and the novel --
Defoe as novelist: Moll Flanders --
Love and the novel: Pamela --
Private experience and the novel --
Richardson as novelist: Clarissa --
Fielding and the epic theory of the novel --
Fielding as novelist: Tom Jones --
Realism and the later tradition: a note.